For Rationalism in metaphysics , see is discussed in the classics listed above. For two Two outstanding modern examples , see are J.M.E. McTaggart, The Nature of Existence, 2 vol. (1921–27), together with the commentary of C.D. Broad, Examination of McTaggart’s Philosophy, 2 vol. (1933–38); and Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality (1929). For Rationalism in ethics , see is covered in William Wollaston, The Religion of Nature Delineated (1722); and Kant, Die Metaphysik der Sitten (1785; Eng. trans., The Metaphysics of Morals, 1799). For early Early forms of the appeal to self-evident rules , see can be found in Richard Price, A Review of the Principal Questions in Morals (1758). For later Later types of Rationalism, see rationalism are presented in G.E. Moore, Principia Ethica (1903); W.D. Ross, The Right and the Good (1930), and Foundations of Ethics (1939); and Brian Ellis, Rational Belief System (1979).

For Rationalism rationalism in religion, excellent standard works are : W.E.H. Lecky, History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe, 2 vol. (1865); A.D. White, History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, 2 vol. (1910); J.M. Robertson, A Short History of Freethought, Ancient and Modern, 2nd ed., 2 vol. (1906); A.W. Benn, History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century, 2 vol. (1906); and J.B. Bury, A History of Freedom of Thought (1913). Sigmund Freud, Die Zukunft einer Illusion (1927; Eng. trans., The Future of an Illusion, 1928), offers a psychoanalytic study of religious belief.